nv driver question

[w bugar]

Log complains of "hsync out of range", (so what's the range? :-)) I get the same resolution with no conf file, ranges for h,v in the monitor section of conf and plugging in the exact values reported by the monitor. 


--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Roland Scheidegger <sroland at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:

> From: Roland Scheidegger <sroland at tungstengraphics.com>
> Subject: Re: nv driver question
> To: sergio at sergiomb.no-ip.org
> Cc: wbugar at yahoo.com, xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 9:26 AM
> On 22.01.2009 04:04, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:00 -0800, w bugar wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> A quick nv driver question, installed fedora 10.
> Seem to be stuck at 800x600 resolution, does it support
> higher resolutions?
> >> Have
> >>  Nvidia Riva 128 ZX card
> >>  Optiquest V95 monitor
> >> Both advertise up to 1600x1200.
> > 
> > I run nv driver with 1280x1024 on fedora 10 and above.
> > Riva 128 looks (to me ) an old card, but I don't
> know if it is.
> > 
> > Search by "Nvidia Riva 128 ZX"
> > http://developer.nvidia.com/object/RIVA_128_FAQ.html
> > 5. Why does RIVA 128 only support a 4MB frame buffer? 
> > The RIVA 128 was primarily targeted for the consumer
> mainstream market,
> > so balancing cost and performance was key. Since RIVA
> 128 uniquely has
> > the capability to store textures in off-screen memory
> on both PCI and
> > AGP platforms, we did not feel it necessary to burden
> the graphics card
> > with the additional cost of memory. With virtually
> unlimited system
> > texture memory and a target resolution of 800x600 with
> 16-bit color
> > double-buffered, 4MB is the ideal frame buffer size.
> 
> That's for 3d though. It should support higher
> resolutions for 2d. And
> IIRC the main difference between the Riva 128 and Riva
> 128ZX was that
> the latter had a 8MB frame buffer, so some deviation from
> the "ideal"
> frame buffer size :-). Maybe the log offers some insight
> why it is stuck
> at this resolution, I have no idea about this driver
> though.
> 
> Roland
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